Victoria's Secret Model Leomie Anderson: Don't Feel Pressured to Sext

Leomie Anderson is not one to stand back when she sees a problem. The 23-year-old British model, who has walked the Victoria's Secret runway, previously called out makeup artists at fashion week who were ill-prepared to apply makeup on Black skin. Now she is reaching out to young girls to address the issue of sharing risqué photos.

"With the uncontrollable rise of social media and mixed messages that young people are exposed to, more and more young girls are falling victim to being pressured to do things and having their most intimate moments shared on the internet," she wrote on her blog, Cracked China Cup, in a post called "An Open Letter About Consent and Saying No."

As a model, Anderson says she knows it's her job to put her image out there, but always vocalizes when she's uncomfortable. When she was younger, she had her agents speak for her. Teen girls at school don't have that and, under the guise of maturity, think they know what they're doing when they decide to share sexts. "I know so many girls who felt pressured into sending a picture or doing something with a boy because they liked him or believed him when he said he wouldn't show or tell anybody and ended up the topic of tutor time," she writes. "Sometimes you believe you can trust this person with these private images and videos but you should ask yourself, Why does he need this in his possession?"

Sometimes you believe you can trust this person with these private images and videos but you should ask yourself, Why does he need this in his possession?

Anderson ends her note by telling readers that she knows women whose biggest regret was sending an intimate picture or doing a video that could have been leaked. Saying no is a powerful way to avoid that. She writes:

I just want you to know that you do have the option to say NO. I want you to know that if he/she doesn't want to accept your 'no' then he/she doesn't respect you or your voice, so why should they be entitled to your body in anyway, shape, form or snapchat? Saying NO doesn't make you scared or frigid, it makes you smart and mature–you never want someone to be able to hold something against you or expose you. So, please, all my young girls reading this, know that you don't have to do anything that you aren't fully comfortable with and that your NO means something.